May 1998
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
IAB MESSAGE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 3
Internet Projects
INTERNIC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
Network Solutions Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 14
US Domain Registry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 15
MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 17
UCL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 18
IANA REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
RFC EDITOR REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 19
CALENDAR OF EVENTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 21
TERENA List of Meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . page 23
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INTERNET ARCHITECTURE BOARD
The minutes of the IAB back to 1990 are available for anonymous ftp
access on host ftp.isi.edu, directory /pub/IAB, or via the IAB
World-Wide Web page with URL http://www.iab.org/iab/.
Brian Carpenter IAB Chair
INTERNET ENGINEERING REPORTS
----------------------------
1. The next meeting of the IETF will be held Chicago August,
Illinois from August 24-28, 1998. Our local host is Motorola. The
final meeting of 1998, hosted by Microsoft, will be held in
Orlando, Florida.
Once all arrangements have been made, notifications will be sent
to the IETF Announcement list. Remember that information on
future meetng sites can always be found in the file
0mtg-sites.txt, located on the IETF shadow directories. Of
course, this information is provided on the Web. The IETF's URL
is:
http://www.ietf.org/
2. The minutes of the IESG teleconferences be found on all the IETF
shadow directories in the iesg directory.
The following IESG minutes have been added:
May 7, 1998 (iesg.98-05-07)
May 21, 1998 (iesg.98-05-21)
3. The IESG approved or recommended the following 13 Protocol
Actions during the month of May, 1998:
o Expectations for Computer Security Incident Response for
publication as a Best Current Practices RFC.
o TFTP Blocksize Option for publication as a Draft Standard.
o TN3270 Enhancements for publication as a Draft Standard.
o TFTP Option Extension for publication as a Draft Standard.
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o TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size Options for publication
as a Draft Standard.
o Firewall Support for Mobile IP for publication as an
Informational RFC.
o Options for Repair of Streaming Media for publication as an
Informational RFC.
o Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F' for publication as
an Informational RFC.
o Making Postscript and PDF International for publication as an
Informational RFC.
o Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval for publication as an
Informational RFC.
o APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop Closed
Pages Document for publication as an Informational RFC.
o Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing, and Messaging
Traffic over IP for publication as an Informational RFC.
o Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview for
publication as an Informational RFC.
4. 14 Last Calls were issued by the IESG during the month of May,
1998:
o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs
<draft-iesg-iana-considerations-04.txt> for consideration as a
Best Current Practices RFC.
o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
<draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-04.txt> for consideration as
a Best Current Practices RFC.
o Some Thoughts on the Importance of Modesty and Decorum and the
Need for an IETF Code of Conduct
<draft-odell-code-of-conduct-02.txt> for consideration as a
Best Current Practices RFC.
o Internet Protocol, Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-ipv6-spec-v2-01.txt> for consideration as a
Draft Standard.
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o Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet
Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a Draft
Standard.
o Neighbor Discovery for IP Version 6 (IPv6)
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-discovery-v2-02.txt> for consideration as a
Draft Standard.
o IPv6 Stateless Address Autoconfiguration
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-addrconf-v2-02.txt> for consideration as a
Draft Standard.
o Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
<draft-ietf-mhtml-rel-v2-00.txt> for consideration as a
Proposed Standard.
o POP3 Extension Mechanism <draft-gellens-pop3ext-05.txt> for
consideration as a Proposed Standard.
o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification
(iCalendar) <draft-ietf-calsch-ical-07.txt> for consideration
as a Proposed Standard.
o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability Protocol
(iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos and Journal Entries
<draft-ietf-calsch-itip-04.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol (iMIP)
<draft-ietf-calsch-imip-05.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP'
<draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt> for consideration as a Proposed
Standard.
5. Three new working groups were created this month:
IP Over Fibre Channel (ipfc)
Multicast-Address Allocation (malloc)
ADSL MIB (adslmib)
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6. There were 139 Internet-Draft Actions during the month of May,
1998:
(cat) o Independent Data Unit Protection Generic Security
Service Application Program Interface
(IDUP-GSS-API) <draft-ietf-cat-idup-gss-11.txt>
(none) o Distance-Vector Multicast Routing Protocol MIB
<draft-thaler-dvmrp-mib-09.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Textual Conventions and
OBJECT-IDENTITIES for ATM Management
<draft-ietf-atommib-atm2TC-07.txt>
(drums) o Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
<draft-ietf-drums-smtpupd-07.txt>
(ospf) o The OSPF Opaque LSA Option
<draft-ietf-ospf-opaque-05.txt>
(pktway) o The End-to-End (EEP) PacketWay Protocol for
High-Performance Interconnection of Computer
Clusters
<draft-ietf-pktway-protocol-eep-spec-03.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Tests for ATM Management
<draft-ietf-atommib-test-03.txt>
(trunkmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the DS0 and DS0
Bundle Interface Type
<draft-ietf-trunkmib-ds0-mib-06.txt>
(atommib) o Managed Objects for Controlling the Collection and
Storage of Accounting Information for Connection-Oriented
Networks
<draft-ietf-atommib-acct-04.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for ATM Management
<draft-ietf-atommib-atm1ng-04.txt>
(atommib) o Textual Conventions for MIB Modules Using
Performance History Based on 15 Minute Intervals
<draft-ietf-atommib-perfhistTC-01.txt>
(atommib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the SONET/SDH
Interface Type <draft-ietf-atommib-sonetng-02.txt>
(hubmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the
Ethernet-like Interface Types
<draft-ietf-hubmib-etherif-mib-06.txt>
(ipsec) o Security Architecture for the Internet Protocol
<draft-ietf-ipsec-arch-sec-05.txt>
(ipsec) o IP Authentication Header
<draft-ietf-ipsec-auth-header-06.txt>
(none) o Message Submission <draft-gellens-submit-07.txt>
(pkix) o Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure
Certificate Management Protocols
<draft-ietf-pkix-ipki3cmp-08.txt>
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(ion) o Definitions of Managed Objects for the NBMA Next
Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
<draft-ietf-ion-nhrp-mib-04.txt>
(none) o Making Postscript and PDF International
<draft-palme-int-print-04.txt>
(atommib) o Accounting Information for ATM Networks
<draft-ietf-atommib-atmacct-01.txt>
(stdguide) o Guide for Internet Standards Writers
<draft-ietf-stdguide-ops-07.txt>
(pppext) o Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP'
<draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-11.txt>
(issll) o A Framework for Providing Integrated Services Over
Shared and Switched IEEE 802 LAN Technologies
<draft-ietf-issll-is802-framework-05.txt>
(ftpext) o FTP Extensions for IPv6
<draft-ietf-ftpext-ftp-over-ipv6-02.txt>
(ediint) o MIME-based Secure EDI
<draft-ietf-ediint-as1-06.txt>
(rmonmib) o Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch
Networks Version 1.0
<draft-ietf-rmonmib-smon-04.txt>
(mboned) o Administratively Scoped IP Multicast
<draft-ietf-mboned-admin-ip-space-04.txt>
(tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol Version 3.0
<draft-lyon-itp-nodes-08.txt>
(ipsec) o The Internet IP Security Domain of Interpretation
for ISAKMP <draft-ietf-ipsec-ipsec-doi-09.txt>
(radius) o Implementation of PPTP/L2TP Compulsory Tunneling
via RADIUS <draft-ietf-radius-tunnel-imp-03.txt>
(ssh) o Users' Security Handbook
<draft-ietf-ssh-users-05.txt>
(ftpext) o Internationalization of the File Transfer Protocol
<draft-ietf-ftpext-intl-ftp-05.txt>
(atommib) + Managed Objects for Recording ATM Performance
History Data Based on 15 Minute Intervals
<draft-ietf-atommib-atmhist-00.txt>
(applmib) o Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services
<draft-ietf-applmib-wwwmib-08.txt>
(none) o IETF Criteria For Evaluating Reliable Multicast
Transport and Application Protocols
<draft-mankin-reliable-multicast-03.txt>
(mmusic) o SIP: Session Initiation Protocol
<draft-ietf-mmusic-sip-05.txt,.ps>
(none) o Originator-Info Message Header
<draft-newman-msgheader-originfo-05.txt>
(radius) o Extensible Authentication Protocol Support in
RADIUS <draft-ietf-radius-eap-05.txt>
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(calsch) o Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object
Specification (iCalendar)
<draft-ietf-calsch-ical-07.txt>
(run) o DON'T SPEW A Set of Guidelines for Mass Unsolicited
Mailings and Postings (spam)
<draft-ietf-run-spew-04.txt>
(none) o DIAMETER Base Protocol
<draft-calhoun-diameter-03.txt>
(none) o DIAMETER User Authentication Extensions
<draft-calhoun-diameter-authent-03.txt>
(dhc) o Subnet Configuration Option Set for DHCP
<draft-ietf-dhc-dyn-subnet-conf-02.txt>
(ospf) o The OSPF NSSA Option
<draft-ietf-ospf-nssa-update-04.txt>
(qosr) o A Framework for QoS-based Routing in the Internet
<draft-ietf-qosr-framework-05.txt>
(pppext) o PPP over AAL5 <draft-ietf-pppext-aal5-06.txt>
(calsch) o iCalendar Message-based Interoperability Protocol
(iMIP) <draft-ietf-calsch-imip-05.txt>
(urn) o A URN Namespace for IETF Documents
<draft-ietf-urn-ietf-05.txt>
(none) o Creating 40-Bit Keys for DES
<draft-hoffman-des40-02.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270 Enhancements
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-ver2-enhance-01.txt>
(tn3270e) o Base Definitions of Managed Objects for TN3270E
Using SMIv2 <draft-ietf-tn3270e-tn3270-mib-08.txt>
(tip) o Transaction Internet Protocol - Requirements and
Supplemental Information
<draft-evans-tip-functions-03.txt>
(ipcdn) o Cable Device Management Information Base for MCNS
compliant Cable Modems and Cable Modem Termination
Systems <draft-ietf-ipcdn-cable-device-mib-04.txt>
(ipcdn) o Radio Frequency (RF) Interface Management
Information Base for MCNS compliant RF interfaces
<draft-ietf-ipcdn-rf-interface-mib-04.txt>
(dnsind) o Reserved Top Level DNS Names
<draft-ietf-dnsind-test-tlds-09.txt>
(ipngwg) o Proposed TLA and NLA Assignment Rules
<draft-ietf-ipngwg-tla-assignment-03.txt>
(ippcp) o IP Payload Compression Protocol (IPComp)
<draft-ietf-ippcp-protocol-06.txt>
(calsch) o iCalendar Transport-Independent Interoperability
Protocol (iTIP) Scheduling Events, BusyTime, To-dos
and Journal Entries <draft-ietf-calsch-itip-04.txt>
(ipsec) o IP Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)
<draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-v2-05.txt>
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(ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for ATMARP
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-atmarp-01.txt>
(ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for MARS
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-mars-01.txt>
(issll) o A Framework for Integrated Services and RSVP over
ATM <draft-ietf-issll-atm-framework-04.txt>
(dnssec) o Domain Name System Security Extensions
<draft-ietf-dnssec-secext2-05.txt>
(mhtml) + Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
<draft-ietf-mhtml-cid-v2-00.txt>
(pppext) o PPP Over FUNI <draft-ietf-pppext-funi-06.txt>
(lsma) o Taxonomy of Communication Requirements for
Large-scale Multicast Applications
<draft-ietf-lsma-requirements-02.txt>
(tn3270e) o Definitions of Protocol and Managed Objects for
TN3270E Response Time Collection Using SMIv2
(TN3270E-RT-MIB) <draft-ietf-tn3270e-rt-mib-05.txt>
(tcpimpl) o Increasing TCP's Initial Window
<draft-floyd-incr-init-win-03.txt>
(ion) o ILMI-Based Server Discovery for NHRP
<draft-ietf-ion-discov-nhrp-01.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for Extended Border
Node <draft-ietf-snanau-ebnmib-02.txt>
(none) o IMAP4 Implementation Recommendations
<draft-leiba-imap-implement-guide-07.txt>
(mhtml) + The MIME Multipart/Related Content-type
<draft-ietf-mhtml-rel-v2-00.txt>
(none) o INTERNET MESSAGE ACCESS PROTOCOL - VERSION 4rev1
<draft-crispin-imapv-05.txt>
(fax) + GSTN address element extensions in e-mail services
v3.10 <draft-ietf-fax-fulladdr-00.txt>
(ipsec) o The ISAKMP Configuration Method
<draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-mode-cfg-04.txt>
(tcpsat) o Enhancing TCP Over Satellite Channels using
Standard Mechanisms
<draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-04.txt>
(iesg) o Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations
Section in RFCs
<draft-iesg-iana-considerations-04.txt>
(urlreg) o Guidelines for new URL Schemes
<draft-ietf-urlreg-guide-02.txt>
(smime) o Cryptographic Message Syntax
<draft-ietf-smime-cms-05.txt>
(svrloc) o Service Location Protocol
<draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-v2-05.txt>
(idr) o BGP Route Flap Damping
<draft-ietf-idr-route-damp-03.txt,.ps>
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(pppext) o Multi-link Multi-node PPP
<draft-ietf-pppext-mmp-discovery-02.txt>
(avt) o RTP Payload Format for the 1998 Version of ITU-T
Rec. H.263 Video (H.263+)
<draft-ietf-avt-rtp-h263-video-02.txt>
(openpgp) o OpenPGP Message Format
<draft-ietf-openpgp-formats-03.txt>
(none) + Handle System: A Persistent Global Naming Service
Overview and Syntax
<draft-sun-handle-system-00.txt>
(smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Message Specification
<draft-ietf-smime-msg-04.txt>
(smime) o S/MIME Version 3 Certificate Handling
<draft-ietf-smime-cert-04.txt>
(ngtrans) o 6Bone Routing Practice
<draft-ietf-ngtrans-6bone-routing-01.txt>
(tcpsat) o Ongoing TCP Research Related to Satellites
<draft-ietf-tcpsat-res-issues-03.txt>
(pppext) o Securing L2TP using IPSEC
<draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-security-02.txt>
(ipsec) o Extended Authentication Within ISAKMP/Oakley
<draft-ietf-ipsec-isakmp-xauth-02.txt>
(otp) o The One-Time-Password SASL Mechanism
<draft-ietf-otp-sasl-02.txt>
(none) o APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers' Workshop
Closed Pages Document
<draft-rfced-info-dudley-02.txt>
(printmib) o Printer Finishing MIB
<draft-ietf-printmib-finishing-02.txt>
(tn3270e) o 5250 Telnet Enhancements
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-tn5250e-01.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN
<draft-ietf-snanau-appnmib-v2-01.txt>
(none) o DIAMETER Resource Management Extensions
<draft-calhoun-diameter-res-mgmt-01.txt>
(rps) o Routing Policy System Security
<draft-ietf-rps-auth-01.txt,.ps>
(pint) o Toward the PSTN/Internet Inter-Networking
--Pre-PINT Implementations
<draft-ietf-pint-pre-implement-01.txt>
(rtfm) o SRL: A Simple Ruleset Language
<draft-ietf-rtfm-ruleset-language-01.txt>
(webdav) o WebDAV Advanced Collections Protocol
<draft-ietf-webdav-collection-reqts-02.txt>
(conneg) o An algebra for describing media feature sets
<draft-ietf-conneg-feature-algebra-01.txt>
(none) o Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview
<draft-rfced-info-vns-01.txt>
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(fax) o Extended Facsimile Using Internet Mail
<draft-ietf-fax-eifax-01.txt>
(fax) o Extended MDN for Internet Fax Full Mode
<draft-ietf-fax-mdn-fullmode-01.txt>
(webdav) o Requirements for Event Notification Protocol
<draft-ietf-webdav-enpreq-01.txt>
(none) o XML Media Types <draft-whitehead-mime-xml-03.txt>
(dhc) + Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Server
MIB <draft-ietf-dhc-server-mib-00.txt>
(usefor) + News Article Format
<draft-ietf-usefor-article-00.txt>
(none) + Designing QoSMIC: A Quality of Service sensitive
Multicast Internet protoCol
<draft-banerjea-qosmic-00.txt,.ps>
(fax) + Scenarios for Internet fax capability exchange
<draft-ietf-fax-capability-scenarios-00.txt>
(none) + Negotiated Address Reuse (NAR)
<draft-montenegro-aatn-nar-00.txt>
(none) + Requirements for Simple Workflow Access Protocol -
SWAP <draft-sreddy-swap-requirements-00.txt>
(none) + Photuris: Secret Exchange
<draft-simpson-photuris-secret-00.txt>
(none) + TFTP Multicast Option <draft-rfced-exp-yung-00.txt>
(ldapext) + Signed Directory Operations Using S/MIME
<draft-ietf-ldapext-sigops-00.txt>
(none) + DHCP on IEEE 1394
<draft-fujisawa-ip1394-dhcp-00.txt
(diffserv) + Definition of the Differentiated Services Field (DS
Byte) in the IPv4 and IPv6 Headers
<draft-ietf-diffserv-header-00.txt>
(smime) + Signing Certificate Attribute Specification
<draft-ietf-smime-sigattr-00.txt>
(none) + Schema for Representing Java(tm) Objects in an LDAP
Directory <draft-ryan-java-schema-00.txt>
(hubmib) + Definitions of Managed Objects for IEEE 802.3
Medium Attachment Units (MAUs) using SMIv2
<draft-ietf-hubmib-mau-mib-v2-00.txt>
(none) + DIAMETER Framework Document
<draft-calhoun-diameter-framework-00.txt>
(snanau) o Definitions of Managed Objects for APPN TRAPS
<draft-ietf-snanau-appntrapmib-01.txt>
(none) + Simple Gateway Control Protocol (SGCP)
<draft-huitema-sgcp-v1-00.txt>
(none) + Armenian Character Sets: Implementation Guide
<draft-melikyan-armenian-charsets-00.txt>
(none) + Current Status of NFS version 4
<draft-shepler-nfsv4-00.txt>
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(avt) + An RTP Payload Format for User Multiplexing
<draft-ietf-avt-aggregation-00.txt>
(tn3270e) o TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
<draft-ietf-tn3270e-service-loc-01.txt>
(none) + TN3270E Service Location and Session Balancing
Templates
<draft-naugle-tn3270e-serv-loc-template-00.txt>
(none) + ACC's Vendor Specific Attributes
<draft-ilgun-radius-accvsa-00.txt>
(none) + NNTP Authentication
<draft-newman-nntpext-auth-00.txt>
(none) + PPP LCP extensions for Initial Program load,
Discard received, Link Bandwidth and Link Delay
measurement <draft-passera-lcp-misc-00.txt>
(none) + HTTP Proxy State Management Mechanism
<draft-kristol-http-proxy-state-00.txt,.ps>
(none) + List-Id: A Structured Field and Namespace for the
Identification of Mailing Lists
<draft-chandhok-listid-00.txt>
(diffserv) + An Architecture for Differentiated Services
<draft-ietf-diffserv-arch-00.txt>
(none) + The WWW Common Gateway Interface Version 1.1
<draft-coar-cgi-v11-00.txt>
(none) + The Zone Referral Key
<draft-lewis-dnskey-referral-00.txt>
(none) + DIAMETER QOS Extension
<draft-calhoun-diameter-qos-00.txt>
(smime) + Certificate Distribution Specification
<draft-ietf-smime-certdist-00.txt>
7. 18 RFCs were published during this period
RFC2300 S (none) INTERNET OFFICIAL PROTOCOL STANDARDS
RFC2330 I (ippm) Framework for IP Performance Metrics
RFC2337 E (ion) Intra-LIS IP multicast among routers over
ATM using Sparse Mode PIM
RFC2338 PS (vrrp) Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
RFC2339 I (none) An agreement between the Internet Society,
the IETF and Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the
matter of NFS V.4 protocols
RFC2340 I (none) Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS)
Overview
RFC2341 I (none) Cisco Layer Two Forwarding (Protocol) 'L2F'
RFC2342 PS (none) IMAP4 Namespace
RFC2343 E (none) RTP Payload Format for Bundled MPEG
RFC2344 PS (mobileip)Reverse Tunneling for Mobile IP
RFC2345 E (none) Domain Names and Company Name Retrieval
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RFC2346 I (none) Making Postscript and PDF International
RFC2347 DS (none) TFTP Option Extension
RFC2348 DS (none) TFTP Blocksize Option
RFC2349 DS (none) TFTP Timeout Interval and Transfer Size
Options
RFC2351 I (none) Mapping of Airline Reservation, Ticketing,
and Messaging Traffic over IP
RFC2352 I (none) A Convention For Using Legal Names as
Domain Names
RFC2353 I (none) APPN/HPR in IP Networks APPN Implementers'
Workshop Closed Pages Document
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INTERNET PROJECTS
-----------------
INTERNIC
--------
NETWORK SOLUTIONS REPORT
ops% service.stats May
******************************************************
* gopher sessions *
******************************************************
Connections: 0
Retrievals: 0
******************************************************
* wais sessions *
******************************************************
Connections: 0
Retrievals: 0
******************************************************
* whois sessions *
******************************************************
Client Queries: 24,555,886
Server Queries: 29,308,542
******************************************************
* ftp sessions *
******************************************************
Connections: 118,861
Retrievals: 183,759
******************************************************
* telnet sessions *
******************************************************
Connections: 96,740
******************************************************
* mailserver sessions *
******************************************************
Connections: 0
******************************************************
* http sessions *
******************************************************
Retrievals: 29,070,330
ops%
Phones: 50,135
Emails : 784,402
Updates: 225,192
by Ricardo A. Gonzalez <rgonzale@internic.net>
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THE US DOMAIN REGISTRY
THE US DOMAIN
=============
The US Domain registration information is available online at
http://www.isi.edu/us-domain.
Much of the processing of the requests to the third level domain
name is now automated. In particular, most requests to register
names in localities already delegated are automatically forwarded
to the administrator of that locality.
US DOMAIN ADMINISTRATIVE INFORMATION
====================================
EMAIL/FAX 2485
PHONE 500
----------------------------
Total Contacts 2985
DELEGATIONS: 100
FORWARDED REQUESTS: 771
OTHER US DOMAIN MSGS:2114
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Total 2985
OTHER US DOMAIN MESSAGES include referrals to other subdomains or
to/from the InterNic, phone calls, modifications, application
requests, discussion and clarification of the requests, questions
about names, resolving technical problems with zone files and name
servers, and whois listings.
MAJOR SUBDOMAINS DELEGATED
==========================
K12 CC TEC STATE LIB MUS GEN DST COG
===================================================================
53 40 38 48 42 27 31 10 6
===================================================================
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THIRD LEVEL DELEGATIONS
========================
K12.PR.US. K Thru 12 schools, Puerto Rico.
LOCALITIES
==========
BENTONVILLE.AR.US. NORTH-LOGAN.UT.US.
SPILLVILLE.IA.US. LOGAN.WV.US.
GILCHRIST.FL.US. CLARENDON-HILLS.IL.US.
SAUGUS.MA.US. COACHELLA-VALLEY.CA.US.
CLEAR-CREEK.CO.US. LATAH.ID.US.
DILLINGHAM.AK.US. GRAYSON.VA.US.
MENDOTA.IL.US. VACAVILLE.CA.US.
RODEO.CA.US. BUNCOMBE.NC.US.
NEW-MADRID.MO.US. HIGHLAND.NY.US.
OAK-BROOK.IL.US. ERIE.CO.US.
PENNSBURY.PA.US.
We delegated 4 special domains. They are
SSC.SAUK-SUIATTLE.NSN.US.
SSC.SWINOMISH.NSN.US.
SSC.UPPER-SKAGIT.NSN.US.
UMATILLA.NSN.US.
OTHER US DOMAIN DELEGATIONS THIS MONTH
======================================
CI.INDEPENDENCE.MN.US. BBS.CO.MONROE.MS.US.
JDC.IDAHO-FALLS.ID.US. HEALTH.CI.GIRARD.OH.US.
CI.OSHKOSH.NE.US. FALLS-CHURCH.LIB.VA.US.
CI.EXETER.NE.US. CO.MIAMI.KS.US.
TOWN.CUMBERLAND.ME.US. ABRAMS.PACIFIC-PALISADES.CA.US.
CO.MADISON.NE.US. CO.BINGHAM.ID.US.
APPRAISER.CO.HIGHLANDS.FL.US. ADAM.MACON.GA.US.
TROOP334.INDEPENDENCE.MO.US. CI.ALTOONA.PA.US.
REX.CO.JOHNSON.IA.US. ASAAW.ASHBURN.VA.US.
REUNITE.BOONE.NC.US. CO.JUAB.UT.US.
COURTHOUSE.CARTER.OK.US. DEXTROMETHORPHAN.MIAMI.FL.US.
CI.DEMOPOLIS.AL.US. CI.KRUM.TX.US.
LCS.ISSAQUAH.WA.US. VELASQUEZ.HUMBOLDT.CA.US.
CI.PERU.NE.US. CI.RIVER-BEND.NC.US.
DJBRIAN.QUEENSBURY.NY.US. NETWORX.SCOTTSBLUFF.NE.US.
BORO.TOPTON.PA.US. CSMA.NICHOLS.NY.US.
TUD.DST.CA.US. DHS.DUNEDIN.FL.US.
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COACH.OGDEN.UT.US. CI.LONGWOOD.FL.US.
WEBSERVERS.PROVO.UT.US. CI.DODGE.NE.US.
BCS.BRYAN.TX.US. COMPUTERS.BRICK.NJ.US.
ICONNECT.LAKE.IL.US. CI.AUBURN.NY.US.
CI.JOLIET.IL.US. HRA.CO.GLENN.CA.US.
DELMORE.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US. HOMES.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US.
INTERTECH.ALBUQUERQUE.NM.US. UNICORN.MAITLAND.FL.US.
CI.PETAL.MS.US. CI.EAST-PALO-ALTO.CA.US.
TWP.LOWER.NJ.US. CO.ORANGE.NY.US.
TWP.MARSHALL.PA.US. DOWNNG.OCALA.FL.US.
TOWN.CAREFREE.AZ.US. CI.NIAGARA-FALLS.NY.US.
CI.WYOMING.MI.US. CO.MADISON.ID.US.
TWO.CHEYENNE.WY.US. DAPHNIS.SCOTTSBLUFF.NE.US.
DAPHNIS.MITCHELL.NE.US. STEGESD.DST.CA.US.
HMP.BAYVILLE.NJ.US. CBW.BAYVILLE.NJ.US.
BAY.BAYVILLE.NJ.US. CI.PLAIN-CITY.UT.US.
CI.FLAGER-BEACH.FL.US. CI.CORTE-MADERA.CA.US.
CI.PIEDMONT.OK.US. CI.LUCAS.TX.US.
HCWSA.HENRY.GA.US. WEBNET.TAYLOR.MI.US.
CI.CLAYTON.CA.US. TWN.WASHINGTON.VA.US.
URL: http://www.isi.edu/us-domain/
by Shanthi Ranganathan <US-Domain@ISI.EDU>
MERIT INTERNET ENGINEERING
--------------------------
This report summarizes May 1998 activities of Merit's Internet
Engineering group.
Several ISPs are now providing funding in support of Routing
Arbiter Database operations. We'd like to thank our new sponsors,
who include:
- Verio, Inc. (www.verio.net)
- Teleglobe International (www.teleglobe.net/en/index.html)
- CONNECT (www.connect.com.au/)
The RADB will continue to operate until the routing community
completes its planned transition to a distributed routing registry
model. Merit and other organizations participating in global
routing intend to phase out centralized registries, such as the
RADB, and move to a distributed registry on or about March 31,
1999.
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If your organization can assist in supporting the RADB through this
transition, please contact Merit at (734) 764-9430 and ask for Bill
Norton, Internet Engineering Manager, or Kitty Bridges, Associate
Director for National Networking. You can also send e-mail to
wbn@merit.edu and bridges@merit.edu. See also the RADB Web page:
http://www.merit.edu/radb/
The Merit/MichNet 6bone continues to expand, with the following
sites connected so far:
- Eastern Upper Peninsula Telecommunications Consortium (Michigan)
- Telebit Communications (Denmark)
- WIDE Project (Japan)
- Cisco Systems
- WAMnet Enterprises, Inc. (Minnesota)
- Kansas State University
- ANS
- Viagenie, Inc. (Quebec)
- CERNET (Tsinghua University, the first IPv6 connection to China)
- SingaREN Centre for Internet Research, National University of
Singapore
In addition to the sites above, Merit has established purely
experimental tunnels with two Japanese organizations (Zebra and
INTEC), which are developing their own IPv6 routing software.
Project leader Masaki Hirabaru of the Merit Internet Engineering
Group looks forward to future collaborations as more of our
neighbors connect to the MichNet 6bone. Please send mail to
6bone@merit.edu if you are interested in joining the project.
Jake Khuon, Tom Spindler, and Craig Labovitz attended the 30th RIPE
meeting in Stockholm. At the Routing Working Group, Labovitz gave
a presentation titled "Inter-domain Routing." At the Database
Working Group, Jake Khuon gave a talk titled "Routing Policy
Specification Language Transition Phase II: Merit's Experience."
by Susan R. Harris <srh@merit.edu>
UCL
----
We ran the HIPPARCH Workshop and sent on mbone - see
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/jon/hipparch/program.html for online
papers.
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We presented some work on IP Multicast support in ATM using a novel
approach to cell re-labelling at the IEEE ICATM Conference. See
ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/cram.ps and
ftp://cs.ucl.ac.uk/darpa/cram-sim.ps
We are integrating a number of different systems into our CAIRN
router in line with collaboraters on the CAIRN.
We shall be hosting the IRTF's RM meeting in July - see
http://www.east.isi.edu/rm/
by John Crowcroft <j.crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK>
IANA REPORT
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MIME Media Types 6
Multicast Address: Blocks 1
Private Enterprise Numbers 74
Port Numbers 38
SMI Numbers 3
by Josh Elliott <elliott@IANA.ORG>
RFC EDITOR REPORT
-----------------
This is a summary of Request for Comments Editor activity for the
month of May, 1998:
TIME IN QUEUE
DOCUMENTS New* 30 days 60 days 90 days TOTAL
------------------------------------------------------------------
|
Beginning of 0 11 13 5 | 29
month |
|
New 12 0 0 0 | 12
|
|
Processed 6 8 7 0 | 21
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|
End of month 6 3 6 5 | 20
* New RFCs added to queue throughout the month
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The Requests for Comments (RFCs) are a series of notes, started in
1969, about the Internet (originally the ARPANET). The notes discuss
many aspects of computing and computer communication focusing in
networking protocols, procedures, programs, and concepts, but also
including meeting notes, opinion, and sometimes humor. The
specification documents of the Internet protocol suite, as defined by
the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and its steering group (the
IESG), are published as RFCs.
RFCs-to-be are edited by the RFC Editor. RFCs enter the RFC Editor's
work queue either by an action of the IESG or by independent
submission. Most independent submissions are referred to the IESG to
check for overlap with IETF work. The IESG might put a hold on a
document to gather more input from its members. The wait for an RFC
to be published varies as there can be unforeseen complications
(typically editorial matters that need clarification from the author).
Documents can be removed from the publication queue if they are found
to be insufficient or incorrect or if the IESG asks the author to join
work already in progress in the IETF.
by Alegre Ramos <rfc-ed@RFC-EDITOR.ORG>
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CALENDAR
--------
Last update 6/22/98
The information below has been submitted to the IETF Secretariat as a
means of notifying readers of future events. Readers are requested to
send in dates of events that are appropriate for this calendar section.
Please send submissions, corrections, etc., to:
<meeting-planning@ietf.org>
Please note: The Secretariat does not maintain on-line information for
the events listed below.
A copy of this calendar is available as follows:
VIA FTP
-------
IETF Information is available by anonymous FTP from several sites.
Northern Europe Address: ftp.nordu.net (192.36.148.198)
Southern Europe Address: ftp.nis.garr.it (193.205.245.10)
Pacific Rim Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
Africa Address: ftp.is.co.za (196.4.160.12)
West Coast Address: ftp.isi.edu (128.9.0.32)
US East Coast Address: ftp.ietf.org
cd ietf
ls *0mtg*
WWW
-------
<http://www.ietf.org/home.html> Click on the link for "meetings" and
you should find an entry "listing of other Internet related events".
************************************************************************
1998
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Jul. 2-3 pulver.com's Voice on the
Net(TM) Tokyo, Japan
Jul. 6-10 IEEE 802 Plenary San Diego, CA
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Jul. 13-14 Workshop on Internet-Scale
Event Notification (WISEN) Irvine, CA
Jul. 21-24 INET '98
The Internet Society's 8th
Annual Networking Conference Geneva, Switzerland
Jul. 26-31 ATM Forum Portland, OR
Aug. 3-5 USENIX 2nd Windows NT Seattle, Washington
Aug. 5-7 USENIX 2nd Large Instal. Sys.
Admin of Windows NT(LISA NT) Seattle, Washington
Aug. 23-29 15th IFIP World. Com. Conf. Vienna, Austria and
Budapest, Hungary
Aug. 24-28 42nd IETF Chicago, IL
Aug. 29-Sep 4 SIGCOMM '98 Vancouver, CANADA
Aug. 31-Sep 3 USENIX 2nd Workshop on
Electronic Commerce Boston, MA
Aug. 31-Sep 4 SEC '98
14th Int'l Information Vienna, Austria and
Security Conference Budapest, Hungary
Sep 1-3 DCI's Internet Expo Boston, MA
Sep. 14-18 USENIX - 6th TCL/TK Conf. San Diego, CA
Sep. 14-18 pulver.com's Fall '98 Voice on
the Net(TM) Boston, MA
Sep. 17-18 Electronic Payments Forum (EPF) Boston, MA
Oct. 4-9 ATM Forum Gold Coast, Australia
Oct. 5-8 TERENA (host by DFN) TNC'98 Dresden, Germany
Oct. 13-16 Intl Conf on Netw Protocols Austin, TX
Oct 20-22 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Oct 21-23 Networld+Interop '98 Atlanta, GA
Oct 25-30 MobiCom'98 4th Annual
ACM/IEEE Dallas, TX
Nov. 9-13 IEEE 802 Plenary Albuquerque, NM
Nov 25 TERENA Executive Committe Amsterdam
Nov. 29-Dec 4 ATM Forum Nashville, TN
Dec. 6-11 12th Systems Administration Conf.
(LISA '98) Boston, MA
Dec. 7-11 43rd IETF Orlando, FL
1999
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Feb. 7-13 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA
Feb. 22-25 USENIX - 3rd Sym. on
Oper. Sys Design and
Implementation (OSDI '99) New Orleans, LA
Feb 23-25 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Mar/April 44th IETF (tentative) TBA
Apr. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA
Apr. 26-27 Ninth Int'l Packet Video Wrkshp New York, NY
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May 10-14 IFIP/IEEE Int'l Symposium on
Integrated Network Mgmt Boston, MA
May 11-14 Networld+Interop '99 Las Vegas, NV
May 10-May 14 8th IW3C Toronto, CANADA
Jun 4-6 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Jul 12-16 45th IETF (tentative) Oslo, Norway
Jul. 18-24 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA
late Aug SIGCOMM '99 (West Coast US) Boston, tentative
Sep. 21-23 W3C Interest Group Mtg TBA
Sep. 26-Oct 2 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA
Oct. 8-14 TELECOM '99 Geneva, Switzerland
Oct. 13-17 Networld+Interop '99 Atlanta, GA
Nov. 8-12 46th IETF (tentative) Wash DC (tentative)
Nov. 28-Dec 4 ATM Forum (tentative) TBA
2000
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MAR 27-31 47th IETF Adelaide, Australia
May 9-11 Networld+Interop '00 Las Vegas, NV
late Aug SIGCOMM 2000 Europe (tentative)
Sep 25-29 Networld+Interop '00 Atlanta, GA
The TERENA Calendar for July 1998 may be found on URL:
http://www.terena.nl/news/calendar.html
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
TERENA Secretariat
Singel 466-468
1017 AW Amsterdam
the Netherlands
email <secretariat@terena.nl>
tel: +31 20 530 4488
fax: +31 20 530 4499
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